Neil @bpeel@mastodon.social

The train from Lyon to the airport in Paris costs less than the train to the airport in Lyon. That is nuts.

(ps, I am stuck in the trap, send help!)

I think Tatoeba is actually just a honeytrap for grammar nazis so they get distracted correcting the endless stream of bad sentences and can’t bother people on the rest of the internet.

@Naethano Seriez-vous d’accord pour que ce blog soit sur http://blogoj.gemelo.org ? C’est un site qui rassemble plusieurs blogs en espéranto. Tout le contenu du blog s’y trouverait, mais avec des liens vers le blog original.

Voilà le début de la carrière de grande écrivaine de la géniale Nadia 😍 https://medium.com/@suitesixtine/huis-clos-%C3%A0-shedbush-89d3b5665ee Elle décrit très bien l’ambiance, on peut s’imaginer assis sur le canapé du cottage à Shedbush :) #lgbt

J’ai fait un plat pour ma copine et elle m’a appris un nouveau mot : fade. J’espère que c’est un compliment 😬 🤞

@savanni That’s the great thing about working in open source. Every contribution you make is publicly visible as an individual :)

Apparently, according to Drops, in Arabic a coconut is an “Indian walnut” and a peanut is a “Sudanese bean”. Fun!

9-day streak so far, and I picked up the Assimil book again and started doing Drops. The encouragement from Duolingo seems to be working so far. The actual course is pretty weird though, but maybe backed up with the book I might make some progress.

Quelqu’un a fait un robot pour jouer à Complot en français sur Telegram https://t.me/complotjeu

The Arabic course on Duolingo is finally available in beta. Yay!

To be honest I’m not really a big fan of Duolingo’s method but so far my attempts to learn Arabic haven’t lasted so maybe Duolingo will be enough to motivate me to do a little every day.

@MartinShadok I guess it’s all swings and roundabouts though because I do have to look up spellings a lot in English. Hm.

@MartinShadok Yup, I just found it surprising because I can’t imagine having to look up any conjugations if I ever wanted to write a story in my native language. It seems like French has gone very wrong somewhere :p

A native French speaking friend next to me is trying to write a story and is having to look up the conjugations for the passé simple. French is an absurd language.